Very fun video. Watch closely and you'll see that it boils inside and leaks. When I get ticks that aren't dead, I chase them around with a lighter until they succumb. Then they swell until their anuses rupture and they take off on a rocket flame. Vermin in Space.

OK. I been watching this thing for the last half hour LMAO (a couple of earlier Special Reserves probably helped) and I think I got it figured.

Adult insect wings are shaped by the insect gulping air immediately after its last shed. This fills the gut, forcing body fluid out the veins. The chiten hardens and the insect belches/farts itself back to normal size.

There is a trace amount of water left in the wings. The violet(?) laser heats this because it passes through the thin chiten and the vapor erupts through the wall. You can see this clearly in the last sequence. Several breaches.

The article title isn't quite accurate as you can see the mosquito still trying to fly after it's been shot in the first two sequences.

This leaves me with one last chuckle of the mosquito on the ground wondering what the hell it's gonna do with the ants closing in.

Query: If the new airborne ( in a Modified 747) laser shoots down the second stage of a missile launched using this energy beam, then what does the air to ground model of that laser do to tanks and people? And is that why the missile defense systems are no longer needed in Poland and Czechoslovakia?